The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
SENECA THE YOUNGERAll art is but imitation of nature.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Study rather to fill your mind than your coffers; knowing that gold and silver were originally mingled with dirt, until avarice or ambition parted them.
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Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.
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We have not to talk, but to steer the vessel.
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A great fortune is a great slavery.
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Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.
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A person’s fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.
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Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
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Of war men ask the outcome, not the cause.
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You want to live-but do you know how to live? You are scared of dying-and, tell me, is the kind of life you lead really any different from being dead?
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Who timidly requests invites refusal.
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What narrow innocence it is for one to be good only according to the law.
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Associate with people who are likely to improve you.
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Nobody becomes guilty by fate.
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I am ashamed of my master and not of my servitude.
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The philosopher: he alone knows how to live for himself. He is the one, in fact, who knows the fundamental thing: how to live.
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